The Slumdog Millionaire producer demonstrated in his commentary that he's just another one of Franco's acolytes:

"He's very contained," Colson said of the actor. "He's a very charming, quiet, intelligent, considerate young man. Not a show off at all."

The platitudinous hagiographics are all good and well, but we were most intrigued by Colson's revelation that the over-schooled Franco did his homework on set. Franco was flying between the Utah and New York to attend classes in the midst of the filming, and because his scenes meant lots of time holed up in the mountains, he took it upon himself to read some of the classics.

"He clearly doesn't need to sleep," Colson said. "So in between set-ups, he was stuck in this one place, you know, he would pull out Proust and read a bit of Proust or Joyce, or a bit of T.S. Eliot. or whatever was required for that day."

Perhaps it was this Modernist literary indulgence that allowed Franco to connect with the morbid humanity of a severed arm in the movie's most notorious scene.

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